GM confirms that Europe chief Forster to leave but help with replacement search
Canuck57
bridge loan paid back. Or perhaps bailing early to lock in pension
before the company goes under. Especially since GM is out of cash.
Probably getting more back door support from BO Obama assigning more
debt to taxpayers taxpayers.
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By George Frey And Tom Krisher, The Associated Press
http://ca.news.finance.yahoo.com/s/06112009/2/biz-finance-gm-confirms-europe-chief-forster-leave-help-replacement.html
DETROIT - Carl-Peter Forster, the chief executive of General Motors
Europe who runs its struggling Opel unit, will leave the company, GM
said Friday.
GM said in a statement that Forster, 55, would advise the company on
picking a new Opel CEO. The statement gave no time frame for his departure.
Forster will be replaced temporarily by Nick Reilly, who is now
president of GM's international operations who once ran Opel's Vauxhall
operations in the United Kingdom, said a person briefed on the executive
moves.
The person asked not to be identified because that move has not been
announced publicly.
GM will search externally for a permanent new CEO of Opel and GM Europe,
likely from Germany.
GM CEO Fritz Henderson said in the statement that no other Opel
management changes are expected at this time.
The person briefed on the moves said that Hans Demant will remain on as
managing director and head of the Opel management board.
The executive moves come after the GM board decided this week to keep
its European Opel and Vauxhall units. The board rejected a plan to sell
a majority stake in Opel to a group led by Canadian auto parts maker
Magna International Inc. (TSX: MG-B.TO) and Russian lender Sberbank.
Forster, who has been GM's top European executive since June of 2004,
advocated for the Magna deal before the sale was shot down by the GM board.
"Such a sudden shift isn't comprehensible," Forster told Germany's Bild
daily Wednesday about GM's decision not to sell the units to Magna. "I
hoped that it would have come to a much different outcome."
He told the paper that he didn't have an explanation for the decision
from GM headquarters in Detroit either.
Asked what the restructuring of Opel would look like, Forster said: "I
don't know. We have to work that out in the next days. I think the
important men that decided this don't know themselves."
Forster's successor will have a difficult task of getting the European
operations back on track.
Unions and employees had offered cost-cutting concessions to ease a
Magna deal, such as forgoing pay increases, but those offers are now off
the table and Opel workers went on strike in Europe, starting Thursday.
GM will face a new battle to secure concessions for its own
restructuring plan - and has raised the prospect of the bankruptcy of
the European divisions if all parties don't work to negotiate a viable
plan.
Mike Hunter
Motors! General Motors IS ALREADY out of business and has been ever since
being taken oven by the bankruptcy court, which is tasked to selling off all
of it remaining assets. One of which is Opel.
The writer of the article, as do you, seems not understand that the new "GM"
is not "General Motors." General Motors exists only in the records of the
bankruptcy court.
The new GM, the number one auto manufacturer in the US, is comprised of
Chevrolet, Buick, Cadillac and GMC period, and it in not out of cash, dummy.
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Makes no difference, they both suck on the taxpayers behind. And remain #1
in sales courtesy of the debt being placed on the taxpayers credit card.
For without screwing over taxpayers, both would be long gone by now.
Too big to fail? I might ask too big to save!!! But it isn't about saving
GM, it is about raping taxpayers for DC corruption.
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